Despite the fact that there are 50 - FIFTY - nuclear plants in active development around the world, nuclear isn't going to take off.
WHY (Y) you ask?
>https://techxplore.com/news/2020-10-crowd-nuclear-renewables-dont.html
Nuclear doesn't make sense.
>The study found that in countries with a high GDP per capita, nuclear electricity production does associate with a small drop in CO2 emissions. But in comparative terms, this drop is smaller than that associated with investments in renewable energy.
And perhaps more conclusively, plans have just been drawn up for a compact, "probably going to work" fusion reactor. The pace of advances in the field are eclipsing anything anyone thought possible just a few years ago.
>https://phys.org/news/2020-08-scientists-fusion-reactors.html
>https://phys.org/news/2020-09-inertial-confinement-fusion-implosions-significant.html
>https://phys.org/news/2020-09-validating-physics-mit-designed-fusion.html
So what happens to all those new fission plants? Into the trash they go. All the uranium mining facilities? Trash. They might as well start winding all the active reactors down and utilities just start charging more for each boost of the boomer mobility scooter battery market. They're going to need the capital because the stuff is going to be too cheap to meter.
The IAEA and Interpol can now go about their business doing a thorough accounting of all the at large nuclear fuel, waste, and processing and contaminated equipment, and start writing up the final plans to entomb all waste forever beyond the reach of the world's idiots.
WHY (Y) you ask?
>https://techxplore.com/news/2020-10-crowd-nuclear-renewables-dont.html
Nuclear doesn't make sense.
>The study found that in countries with a high GDP per capita, nuclear electricity production does associate with a small drop in CO2 emissions. But in comparative terms, this drop is smaller than that associated with investments in renewable energy.
And perhaps more conclusively, plans have just been drawn up for a compact, "probably going to work" fusion reactor. The pace of advances in the field are eclipsing anything anyone thought possible just a few years ago.
>https://phys.org/news/2020-08-scientists-fusion-reactors.html
>https://phys.org/news/2020-09-inertial-confinement-fusion-implosions-significant.html
>https://phys.org/news/2020-09-validating-physics-mit-designed-fusion.html
So what happens to all those new fission plants? Into the trash they go. All the uranium mining facilities? Trash. They might as well start winding all the active reactors down and utilities just start charging more for each boost of the boomer mobility scooter battery market. They're going to need the capital because the stuff is going to be too cheap to meter.
The IAEA and Interpol can now go about their business doing a thorough accounting of all the at large nuclear fuel, waste, and processing and contaminated equipment, and start writing up the final plans to entomb all waste forever beyond the reach of the world's idiots.
